Florida Flowers and Insects Sal 
Yellow.—Shows 25% of the flowers observed and 12.1% 
of the visits. Of the visits to yellow, 23.8% are made by 
flies and 23.8 by Lepidoptera. 
White—Shows 42.8% of the flowers and 64% of the 
visits. The lower Hymenoptera show 84.2, flies 76.7, 
Coleoptera and Hemiptera 64.5, short-tongued bees 56.7, 
Lepidoptera 54.9, long-tongued bees 41.1% under white, 
all maxima. Of total visits to white, the Lepidoptera 
show 27.9%, lower Hymenoptera 27.0, flies 23.2, short- 
tongued bees 10.6, long-tongued 7.5. 
General colors—As we pass from red through yellow 
to white, the long-tongued bees show 38.2, 20.5, 41.1; Lepi- 
doptera 36.1, 8.8, 54.9; short-tongued bees 25.9, 17.3, 56.7; 
Coleoptera and Hemiptera 12.9, 22.5, 64.5; lower Hymen- 
opetera 10.7, 5.0, 84.2; flies 8.3, 14.8, 76.7. Or long- 
tongued bees and Lepidoptera 36.7, 11.9, 51.3; other in- 
sects 13,3, 12.2, 74.4. The determining condition is that red 
generally shows the deepest seated nectar and white the 
shallowest. At Carlinville, Illinois, were observed 13,971 
pollinating visits to 437 flowers, of which 30.2% were red, 
30.6 yellow and 39.1 white. Long-tongued bees show 34.0, 
31.4, 34.5; Lepidoptera 36.8, 23.7, 39.3; short-tongued bees 
11.9, 35.8, 52.1; flies 7.7, 32.9, 59.3; lower Hymenoptera 
7.5, 29.4, 62.9; Coleoptera and Hemiptera 6,3, 31.3, 62.2. 
Long-tongued bees and Lepidoptera show 34.6, 29.2, 36.0; 
other insects 8.9, 32.9, 58.0. 
Species and individuals.—In the case of 18 species in 
which the individual insects were taken as they came, bees 
shows 24.9% of 477 pollinating visits and 37.4% of 2,679 
individuals. In the case of 41 flower species observed at 
Carlinville, Illinois, bees were 31.6% of 405 species, made 
40.2% of 1,452 visits and were 57.4% of 7,391 individuals 
(9: 70.) 
